Saturday, 15 March 2008

Politicats

"He once got into a fight with a cat which belonged to Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, who was a neighbour of Mr Medvedev. According to the popular Moskovsky Komsomolets daily newspaper, Dorotheus came off second best.

"The feline fighter, now four years old, had to be treated with antibiotics for more than a month after the scrap. Even worse, he was castrated in an attempt to prevent him getting into more trouble."